Word: derail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans did not hesitate to turn up the temperature in this hothouse environment. On Wednesday morning, even before delivering a pep talk to the three Presidents at the plenary session, Christopher visited the private quarters of each to chide them about actions their countries might take that could derail the talks. He warned Tudjman not to undercut Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation and told him point-blank to knock off the brinkmanship over eastern Slavonia, the hotly contested sliver of Croatia still controlled by rebel Serbs. The Secretary instructed Izetbegovic to keep his distance from the media and told Milosevic...
...polls are right, could lose the job he wants so much to a man not sure he wants it at all. The whole Powell drama has been one long nightmare for Dole, especially as leader of a party that is rarely inclined to flirt with renegades or derail front runners. Dole has polled Republicans nationally about Powell. "Like to know what he's up to," he recently told a senior adviser. He told a lobbyist in a private meeting last week that the press will cut Powell "off at the knees" if he gets into the race, that a Dole...
TIME's Edward Barnes reports that Hagai Amir, brother of Rabin assassin Yigal, has told Israeli police that he and his brother and at least one other Israeli extremist, Dror Adani, had been planning on killing a large number of Arabs with some sort of dramatic incident that would derail the peace process. "That was the reason for the cache of arms and detonating devices discovered at the Yamir house," says Barnes. "It is still unclear at what point the brothers and their friend decided to kill Rabin or whether they were implicated in the other alleged attempts on Rabin...
...captured the national spotlight by denouncing Yeltsin's half-finished experiment with reform and by promising a return to the stability and prestige Russians enjoyed during the days of the old Soviet Union. In the past two years, Yeltsin has managed to stave off numerous attempts by parliament to derail Russia's halting transition to democratic pluralism. But if the balance tips even further in this next election, it would severely challenge the ability of any President to continue using his office as a protective bulwark against a hostile legislature bent on dismantling reform. For all his flaws, Yeltsin...
...even that was going to be hard to prove. The guy might have acted stupidly, but he is no crook." But Greene, who is up for a promotion to the rank of rear admiral, may well become the third Navy commander in recent months to have sex-related charges derail his career. "He'll never get the promotion now," says Thompson. "It is very political to get to the next stage, and he simply doesn't have the support of the Navy. Remember, it was the Navy who took him to court...